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11. EuPL(EA (Isamia) midamus, Linnceus. 



Papilio midamus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ins., ed. x, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 470, n. 75 

 (1758) ; Isamia midamus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 312, n. 5, pi. 

 xxxii, fig. 5, male ; Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 132 (1891) ; Euploea {Trepsichrois [sic !] ) 

 midamus, Walkei*, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 446, n. 9; Papilio superhus, 

 Herbst, Pap., vol. vi, p. 14, n. 3, pi. cxix, fig. 3, female ; pi. cxx, figs. 1, 2, male 

 (1793)*; Euplcea superha, Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 488, 

 n. 147 (1862) ; Isamia superha [sic], Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 311, n. 

 3; Lep. Ind., Vol. i. p. 132 (1891); Kirby in Hiibner's Ix. Scbmett., new edition, 

 Vol. 1, p. 4, pi. xxiv, figs. 3, 4, female {Limnas Mutahilis Midamus [sic] on plate) (1894) ; 

 Euplcea (Isamia) superha [sic]. Walker, Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 446, n. 8 ; 

 Danais alopia, Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 177, n. 4 (1819) ; Isamia alopia, Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 313, n. 6, pi. xxxii, fig. 7, male ; Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 

 132 (1891); Isamia sinica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1883, p. 312, n. 4, Lep. 

 Ind., vol. i, p. 132 (1891). 



There are several mistakes in the references as usually given. 

 Herbst calls his fig. 3 on pi. cxix a (?, while it is a 9 , and his figs. 1 and 

 2 on pi. cxx a 2 , while it is a ^ . Dr. F. Moore sets this right in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, page 311, n. 3, as regards the 9 ; but on page 

 313, n. 6, erroneously calls figs. 1 and 2 9 instead of ^ . He also uses 

 superba instead of superhus as originally written, and refers to plate 102 

 instead of plate 122. He makes two species out of Herbst's figures, 

 while they represent one species only. 



Dr. F. Moore in 1883 and again in 1891 records and keeps distinct 

 four species of Isamia from South China. These four species are in 

 my opinion one and the same species, which at Hongkong, and doubt- 

 less wherever it occurs in Southern China, is a most variable one. In 

 Hongkong the larva has been reported to feed on Strophanthtts divergens^ 

 Grah., Natural Order Apocynacem. 



Subfamily SATYRIN^. 



12. Mycalesis (Galysisme) mineus, Linnaeus. 



Papilio. mineus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ins., ed. x, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 471, n. 84 (1758) ; 

 Calysisme mineus Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 162 ; Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 

 187 (1892) ; Mycalesis mineus, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 447, n. 13; 

 Mycalesis mineus, var. confucius, Leech, Butt. China, Japan and Corea, p. 12, 

 pi. ii, fig. 7, male (1892) ; Kirby, The Entomologist, vol. xxxii, p. 31 (1899). 



The var. confucius is the dry-season form of M. mineus found in 

 China. The larva in India feeds on grasses. 



13. Mycalesis (Galysisme) horsfieldii, Moore. 

 Calysisme horsfieldii, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol., i, p. 197, pi. Ixvi, figs, 2, 2a, 26, 



